Ultimate Markdown - Markdown Plugin For WordPress

Ultimate Markdown – Markdown Plugin for WordPress

This plugin consists of a number of utilities that aid you work with the Markdown syntax within the context of WordPress.

Use the highly effective options added by this plugin to hurry up your publishing workflow. Ultimate Markdown comes with a Markdown editor, block editor integration (with an importer and exporter of Markdown recordsdata), a devoted menu to carry out bulk operations (bulk import or bulk export of Markdown recordsdata), and devoted REST API endpoints that enable superior customers to create or learn Markdown paperwork from exterior functions or different plugins.

Lite Version

The Lite version of Ultimate Markdown permits you to use a part of the plugin’s functionalities. Get it now from the WordPress.org plugin repository.

Editor Sidebar Sections

Below are the main points on the Markdown utilities added to the WordPress block editor.

Import Markdown

This sidebar part features a file uploader that you should use to shortly create a WordPress article from Markdown recordsdata saved regionally in your gadget.

Load Markdown

This performance, obtainable within the publish editor, permits you to generate a publish from a Markdown doc beforehand added to plugin inside paperwork.

Submit Markdown

This function helps you to shortly convert Markdown textual content to completely formatted editor blocks utilizing a devoted textual content space.

Export Markdown

Use this function to obtain the at present edited article as a Markdown file.

Markdown Editor

Create Markdown paperwork immediately within the plugin utilizing the embrace Markdown editor. We constructed the editor utilizing the Marked JavaScript parser to supply a exact and fast preview of the edited Markdown textual content.

Importer

Create posts from uploaded Markdown recordsdata

On the plugin’s devoted administrative web page, you’ll be able to add limitless Markdown paperwork and convert them to posts.

In addition, from the plugin choices, you’ll be able to configure the publish kind and, optionally, the class of the posts generated out of your Markdown recordsdata.

Create plugin paperwork from uploaded Markdown recordsdata

Use this function to create Markdown paperwork (saved within the plugin’s inside archive of Markdown paperwork) from uploaded Markdown recordsdata.

Exporter

Bulk Export posts, pages, or customized publish varieties

This function permits you to bulk export the posts of your WordPress web site. In the offered kind, you’ll be able to choose the publish kind, the classes, and the tags used as a supply of the export operation. Note that this operation generates a compressed archive (.zip) of Markdown recordsdata.

Bulk export the plugin’s inside paperwork

With this performance, you’ll be able to shortly export all of the Markdown paperwork (saved within the plugin’s inside archive of Markdown paperwork). The exported paperwork will likely be obtainable as a compressed archive (.zip) of Markdown recordsdata.

Front Matter

This plugin helps Front Matter, a block of key-worth content material positioned on the prime of Markdown paperwork. You can use Front Matter to configure publish metadata such because the publish title, publish date, publish standing, excerpt, classes, tags, and many others.

Popular publishing platforms like Hugo, Jekyll, and many others., have adopted Front Matter. However, it’s nonetheless not obtainable for WordPress customers. With Ultimate Markdown, now you can leverage Front Matter to arrange each facet of your articles shortly.

The instance beneath demonstrates how you should use Front Matter to configure the publish title, excerpt, and standing of a WordPress publish:

---
title: The publish title
excerpt: The publish excerpt
standing: personal
---

## First Heading

Paragraph Content.

The full checklist of supported keys is accessible within the Front Matter section of the plugin documentation.

REST API

The plugin provides two REST API endpoints to your WordPress web site. You can configure the kind of authentication required to make use of these endpoints from the plugin choices.

For extra info, the documentation of the endpoints is accessible here.

Endpoints

Import Documents

Create WordPress posts or Markdown paperwork by submitting HTTP requests to a devoted REST API endpoint created by the plugin.

List Documents

The plugin additionally comes with a REST API endpoint that permits you to learn the Markdown paperwork saved within the plugin.

Additional Features

Markdown parser for import operations

The plugin can carry out the Markdown import operations with one of many following parsers:

Parsedown
Parsedown Extra
Cebe Markdown

Note which you can configure your favourite parser from the plugin choices.

Markdown parser for export operations

When you export a single article from the publish editor or in bulk from the devoted plugin menu, the plugin will use the HTML to Markdown for PHP parser.

Automatically add the Images referenced within the Markdown paperwork

When you reference pictures obtainable in public URLs within the imported Markdown paperwork, the plugin can robotically add them to the WordPress media library and replace their URLs to mirror this alteration.

We applied this function to permit fast add of full articles with out manually importing pictures. You can flip this function on or off from the plugin choices.

Customize the REST API authentication technique

Select the kind of authentication required to entry the REST API endpoints created by the plugin. The authentication strategies obtainable within the plugin choices are:

Cookies
REST API Key
None

Configure the required capabilities

You can configure the WordPress functionality required to entry the plugin menu. Using this function, you’ll be able to, for instance, enable customers with the editor position to create Markdown paperwork however to not import and export them in bulk.

Yearly Plans

You can alternatively buy yearly plans for 1, 5, or 25 web sites. For extra info, please see the Ultimate Markdown Pricing Section on our portal.

Updates

05.11.2024 - v1.15
  - Added assist for seamless updates delivered immediately from our server.
  - The PclZip class is now used to create zip archives when the native PHP class ZipArchive is just not obtainable.
  - Renamed a PHP class to forestall battle with the identical class that's obtainable within the free model.
08.07.2024 - v1.14
  - Initial launch